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Definition: Unpremeditated |
UnpremeditatedAdjective1. Not prepared or planned in advance; "asked an unpremeditated question". 2. Not premeditated. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unpremeditated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Antonym: premeditated (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impulse | Adjective: extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate; snap; improvised, improvisate, improvisatory; unpremeditated, unmeditated; improvise; unprompted, unguided; natural, unguarded; spontaneous; (voluntary); instinctive. |
Intention | Adjective: fortuitous; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated; unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of. |
Nonpreparation | Shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded; happy-go-lucky; caught napping; (inexpectant); unpremeditated. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unpremeditated |
| English words defined with "unpremeditated": chance-medley ♦ Extemporal ♦ Improvisate, Indeliberate. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Unpremeditated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unpremeditated" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unpremeditated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pa dashje (unwitting), i paqëllimtë (purposeless, unmeant, unwitting), i paparamenduar. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спонтанен (candid, instinctive, spontaneous, unconditioned, unconstrained, unforced, unprompted, unrehearsed, unrequested, unschooled, unscripted, unsolicited, unstudied, untaught), неволен (involuntary, spontaneous, unintentional, unmeant), непредумишлен, непреднамерен (casual, inadvertent, undesigned, unmeant, unstudied, unwitting), импровизиран (candid, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvised, makeshift, off the cuff, offhand, rough and ready, scratch). (various references) | |
Czech | nepromyšlený, neplánovaný, neúmyslný (inadvertent, involuntary, unconscious, undesigning, unintentional, unmeant). (various references) | |
Finnish | tahaton (involuntary, unintentional). (various references) | |
German | unvorbereitet (extemporaneous, extemporary, extemporize, unprepared, unpreparedly, unpreventable). (various references) | |
Greek | αμελέτητοσ (not well planned, unmentionable, unprepared, unstudied), απρομελέτητοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rögtönzött (ad lib, ad-lib, extemporal, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, hop, impromptu, improvisational, improvised, jury, makeshift, off hand, off-hand, scratch, snap, unprompted, unrehearsed). (various references) | |
Italian | estempor neo (unpreventable). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emeditatedunpray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | não premeditado (undesigned, unwilled), improvisado (ad lib, cavalier, extemporary, extempore, half-cocked, impromptu, improvised, jury, makeshift, offhand, offhanded, scratch, unprepared), espontâneo (cavalier, free, matter-of-course, natural, offhand, offhanded, self-sown, spontaneous, unasked, unbidden, unconstrained, unlaboured, unprompted, unsought, unstrained, unstudied, untaught, willing). (various references) | |
Romanian | spontan (easy, self-sown, spontaneous, spontaneously, unbidden, unschooled), nepremeditat, improvizat (extemporaneous, extempore, impromptu, off hand, off-handed). (various references) | |
Russian | непреднамеренный (involuntary, purposeless, undeliberate, unintended, unintentional, unmeant). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | koji nije unapred planiran, bez predumišljaja. (various references) | |
Spanish | impremeditado (impromptu), extemporaneo (unpreventable). (various references) | |
Swedish | oöverlagd (unconsidered). (various references) | |
Turkish | kasıtsız (unconscious, undesigned, unintended, unintentional, unmeant, unwitting), önceden plânlanmamış (undesigned). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | випадковий (accidental, adventitious, aleatory, casual, chance, chanceful, circumstantial, coincidental, contingent, episodic, episodical, eventual, extemporary, facultative, fortuitous, haphazard, happy go lucky, hit or miss, incident, occasional, occurrent, odd, pickup, promiscuous, random, stray), ненавмисний (casual, extemporary, inadvertent, involuntary, purposeless, undesigned, unintentional). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không suy tính trước, không sửa đoạn trước, không chủ tâm không chuẩn bị, không định trước. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unpremeditated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unpremeditate, unpremenditated. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-i-m-n-p-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: premeditated. | |
-3 letters: determinate, intemperate, preadmitted, premeditate. | |
-4 letters: attempered, department, determined, deuterated, enumerated, epidendrum, impetrated, mutineered, pedimented, penetrated, pentameter, readmitted, remediated, repudiated, terminated, unadmitted, unmediated, untempered. | |
-5 letters: demerited, denatured, depainted, depredate, depurated, determent, determine, detrained, detriment, deuterate, dipnetted, emendated, entreated, enumerate, impetrate, imprudent, indurated, intreated, maundered, meandered, meditated, numerated, patienter, patterned, penetrate, permeated, permitted, permittee. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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